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Per hour and tornado watches for multiple states. deadly storms bringing 35 reported tornadoes across ten states in the past 24 hours. west of tallahassee, a reported pre-dawn tornado killing at least two people here, injuring three more. daybreak revealing a trail of destruction. near lafayette, louisiana, body camera video showing an officer racing to rescue drivers from a multicar accident. mississippi hammered overnight. search and rescue teams checking for victims near hattiesburg after reports of an elderly woman trapped inside. and the storm blowing across penn state this afternoon. tho...

Just how dangerous and unpredictable these storms can be. a tornado killing at least 16 people in oklahoma, including experienced storm chasers, tim samaras, carl young and tim's 24-year-old son, paul. storm chaser tim samaras's death is especially shocking, given his focus on safety and his decades of experience. his brother says he was the very last person you think would get trapped and killed in a tornado. >> i just could never think it would ever happen to him because of his level of expertise, years of being able, of doing this, his safety and all of his training, everything else he's do...

Jon: i'm jon scott in our acqui nitions newsroom channel, this is where we bring in the satellite feeds and take a look at remote 25 three, that's springfield, massachusetts, a school bus on its side, on top of a mass of downed trees. four people dead, known dead in that freak tornado. and a car on top of a roof there. again, massachusetts. you might be accustomed to seeing this kind of thing in kansas or oklahoma. but massachusetts? a very freakish storm. we're continuing to cover it. jenna. jenna: thank you jon. back to one of our big stories today, china on the attack, strongly denying repo...

Jon: some developing stories we're watching right in our newsroom, as well as the control room, debate is growing now over the death toll in mexico's 4 1/2 year drug war. the last official toll six months ago put it at just under 35,000. the government there refusing to release any new statistics, but there are fears the number of dead now tops 40,000. hearings today on capitol hill focusing on the bp oil spill. mississippi governor haley barbour calls it an economic disaster for his state, citing the hit on tourism and drop in the number of deepwater drilling permits issued. a live look a...

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